20 Homemade Workshop Tools Every 1960s Dad Built That OSHA Would Shut Down Today

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLostHandyman?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Start Saving Money By Fixing Everything Yourself Ebook: https://forgottenhandymansecrets.netlify.app/ In 1962, a tool-and-die man in Dayton, Ohio built a table saw out of his wife's dead Maytag washing machine — a third-horsepower motor bolted under a sheet of plywood, a ten-inch blade through a slot, no guard, a two-by-four for a fence. He ran it for thirty-one years and kept all ten fingers. There was a garage like his on every street in Dayton, Flint, and Toledo: men who stood next to machines all day at the plant, then came home and built more out of scrap. OSHA didn't open its doors until 1971. We traded those garages for the hardware aisle — safer tools, weaker hands. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health_Act_(United_States) https://www.industryweek.com/regulations/40-years-safety https://www.ohsu.edu/sites/default/files/2020-04/April%2028th%202020%20White%20Paper%20-%20Workers%20Memorial%20Day%20and%20OSHA%20Anniversary.pdf